Post by Okwes on Jul 7, 2007 11:23:47 GMT -5
Page Springs Bed and Breakfast in Sedona Arizona Presents a New Look at
Henry David Thoreau
Katahdin, mystical mountain where Thoreau experienced his life-changing epiphany in the heart of the Baxter State Park in north central Maine. Photo by Connie Baxter Marlow.
Sedona, Arizona: Beware the Ideas of March! Sedona futurist Connie Baxter Marlow presents a new look at Henry David Thoreau, with information and a perspective that she believes will challenge not only our understanding of one of America's great thinkers and “disobedients,” but also some fundamental assumptions about the world we live in.
Marlow, author, photographer, filmmaker, and social philosopher, will present several little-known facets of the life and works of Henry David Thoreau at two events in Sedona.
On Friday March 16, at 7:00 p.m., at the Well Red Coyote, Marlow, Andrew Cameron Bailey and Sunny Heartley present "Thoreau and the Native American." On Sunday, March 18, at 7:00 p.m., Marlow will screen her film "Thoreau, The Native American, Mt. Katahdin, and the Future" at the Sedona Public Library. The film is part two of her film series "The American Evolution: Voices of America."
Marlow's film was shot on location in Thoreau's replica house in Concord, Massachusetts.
The film, "Thoreau, The Native American, Mt. Katahdin, and the Future," presents Thoreau, the ethnologist and Thoreau, the mystic. The film features Henry David Thoreau through interpreter/impersonator Richard Smith, the late Thoreau scholar Bradley P. Dean, Ph.D., who discusses Thoreau's unpublished Indian Notebooks, Native American Penobscot elders, and Mt. Katahdin, mystical mountain.
Henry David Thoreau had a secret life! How many people know of his fascination with the American Indian? That he was one of the top ethnologists of his time? That there are 12 volumes of unpublished "Indian Notebooks" from his studies of the Algonquin Indians, before contact? That Joe Polis, his Indian guide to the Maine woods, was one of three in his pantheon of heroes? (Photo, left: Henry David Thoreau.)
"Thoreau's personal pantheon of heros consisted of three men: the poet, Walt Whitman, the abolitionist, John Brown, and the Penobscot chief, Joe Polis, who served as Thoreau's guide to the Maine woods in the summer of 1857." - Bradley P. Dean, Thoreau Scholar.
Marlow believes Thoreau's profound connection with the American Indian and his life-changing epiphany on Mt. Katahdin in Maine, make him a bridge into the future for the integration of indigenous cosmology with Western thought.
"Why, then, make such a great ado about the Greek and Roman and neglect the Indian?" asked Thoreau in his Journal. "[The arrowhead] wings its way through the ages, bearing a message from the hand that shot it."
"I believe that Henry David Thoreau has yet to be truly understood for something he was intent on conveying in his writing," states Marlow. "Thoreau experienced an expanded reality, the reality he sensed the American Indian inhabited. He spent a good part of his life seeking that common ground. Thoreau bridges the spiritual and material worlds and breaks us loose from the scientific paradigm, as he declared in The Maine Woods 'A scientific explanation, as it is called, would have been altogether out of place...Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep...there was something to be seen if one had eyes.'"
At each of the two events, Marlow will give the audience an in-depth look at Thoreau's life of study and contact with the American Indian, and the reality they shared in their mystical connection with nature.
At the Well Red Coyote, Sunny Heartley, an Algonquin Indian from Maine, will play the Native American flute and will represent Joe Polis, Thoreau's Indian guide. Andrew Cameron Bailey will represent Thoreau himself, and will read excerpts from the over 1,000 Indian-related references in Thoreau's writings.
"The same experience always gives birth to the same sort of belief or religion. One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man" wrote Thoreau in The Maine Woods.
"Indian relics abound in Concord...These, and every circumstance touching the Indian were important in his (Thoreau's) eyes. His visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian." stated Ralph Waldo Emerson in his eulogy to Thoreau.
Thoreau said of his experience on Kathadin: "This matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts of which I am one..."
Article courtesy of Connie Baxter Marlow.
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About Connie Baxter Marlow
Born and raised in Maine, Connie has a deep connection with Mt. Katahdin, the sacred mountain of the Wabanaki/Penobscot Indians, which sits within Baxter State Park, the 200,000 acres Connie's great grand-uncle, Percival Baxter, bought and gave to the people of Maine to be held "forever wild."
Connie's book "Greatest Mountain: Katahdin's Wildernes," and her film series "The American Evolution: Voices of America" will be for sale at the Well Red Coyote; they are also available through her website, www.TheAmericanEvolution.com.
Marlow and Bailey are the founders of The Inn_Stitute @ Sedona, a forum for uplifting evolutionary ideas, at Page Springs Bed and Breakfast, just outside Sedona. For more information, visit www.TheInnstitute.com and www.TheAmericanEvolution.com.
Enjoy the inviting comfort of two lovely homes on eight acres in peaceful Page Springs. Our property, situated at the base of a natural amphitheatre and surrounded by Coconino National forest is only minutes from fabulous Sedona and Red Rock country to the north and Old Town Cottonwood and art-colony Jerome to the south. Page Springs B&B is the perfect home base for exploring the many wonders of Sedona, the Verde Valley and northern Arizona.
Themed rooms bring indigenous cultures of the world alive. Each suite expresses a unique cultural heritage with furnishings, artifacts and photography of indigenous people from the U.S., Mexico and the Kalahari in South Africa. Come and enjoy the natural beauty and multicultural experience of Page Springs B&B.
For more information call 928-634-4335 or visit: www.pagespringsbandb.com
Henry David Thoreau
Katahdin, mystical mountain where Thoreau experienced his life-changing epiphany in the heart of the Baxter State Park in north central Maine. Photo by Connie Baxter Marlow.
Sedona, Arizona: Beware the Ideas of March! Sedona futurist Connie Baxter Marlow presents a new look at Henry David Thoreau, with information and a perspective that she believes will challenge not only our understanding of one of America's great thinkers and “disobedients,” but also some fundamental assumptions about the world we live in.
Marlow, author, photographer, filmmaker, and social philosopher, will present several little-known facets of the life and works of Henry David Thoreau at two events in Sedona.
On Friday March 16, at 7:00 p.m., at the Well Red Coyote, Marlow, Andrew Cameron Bailey and Sunny Heartley present "Thoreau and the Native American." On Sunday, March 18, at 7:00 p.m., Marlow will screen her film "Thoreau, The Native American, Mt. Katahdin, and the Future" at the Sedona Public Library. The film is part two of her film series "The American Evolution: Voices of America."
Marlow's film was shot on location in Thoreau's replica house in Concord, Massachusetts.
The film, "Thoreau, The Native American, Mt. Katahdin, and the Future," presents Thoreau, the ethnologist and Thoreau, the mystic. The film features Henry David Thoreau through interpreter/impersonator Richard Smith, the late Thoreau scholar Bradley P. Dean, Ph.D., who discusses Thoreau's unpublished Indian Notebooks, Native American Penobscot elders, and Mt. Katahdin, mystical mountain.
Henry David Thoreau had a secret life! How many people know of his fascination with the American Indian? That he was one of the top ethnologists of his time? That there are 12 volumes of unpublished "Indian Notebooks" from his studies of the Algonquin Indians, before contact? That Joe Polis, his Indian guide to the Maine woods, was one of three in his pantheon of heroes? (Photo, left: Henry David Thoreau.)
"Thoreau's personal pantheon of heros consisted of three men: the poet, Walt Whitman, the abolitionist, John Brown, and the Penobscot chief, Joe Polis, who served as Thoreau's guide to the Maine woods in the summer of 1857." - Bradley P. Dean, Thoreau Scholar.
Marlow believes Thoreau's profound connection with the American Indian and his life-changing epiphany on Mt. Katahdin in Maine, make him a bridge into the future for the integration of indigenous cosmology with Western thought.
"Why, then, make such a great ado about the Greek and Roman and neglect the Indian?" asked Thoreau in his Journal. "[The arrowhead] wings its way through the ages, bearing a message from the hand that shot it."
"I believe that Henry David Thoreau has yet to be truly understood for something he was intent on conveying in his writing," states Marlow. "Thoreau experienced an expanded reality, the reality he sensed the American Indian inhabited. He spent a good part of his life seeking that common ground. Thoreau bridges the spiritual and material worlds and breaks us loose from the scientific paradigm, as he declared in The Maine Woods 'A scientific explanation, as it is called, would have been altogether out of place...Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep...there was something to be seen if one had eyes.'"
At each of the two events, Marlow will give the audience an in-depth look at Thoreau's life of study and contact with the American Indian, and the reality they shared in their mystical connection with nature.
At the Well Red Coyote, Sunny Heartley, an Algonquin Indian from Maine, will play the Native American flute and will represent Joe Polis, Thoreau's Indian guide. Andrew Cameron Bailey will represent Thoreau himself, and will read excerpts from the over 1,000 Indian-related references in Thoreau's writings.
"The same experience always gives birth to the same sort of belief or religion. One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man" wrote Thoreau in The Maine Woods.
"Indian relics abound in Concord...These, and every circumstance touching the Indian were important in his (Thoreau's) eyes. His visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian." stated Ralph Waldo Emerson in his eulogy to Thoreau.
Thoreau said of his experience on Kathadin: "This matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts of which I am one..."
Article courtesy of Connie Baxter Marlow.
***********************
About Connie Baxter Marlow
Born and raised in Maine, Connie has a deep connection with Mt. Katahdin, the sacred mountain of the Wabanaki/Penobscot Indians, which sits within Baxter State Park, the 200,000 acres Connie's great grand-uncle, Percival Baxter, bought and gave to the people of Maine to be held "forever wild."
Connie's book "Greatest Mountain: Katahdin's Wildernes," and her film series "The American Evolution: Voices of America" will be for sale at the Well Red Coyote; they are also available through her website, www.TheAmericanEvolution.com.
Marlow and Bailey are the founders of The Inn_Stitute @ Sedona, a forum for uplifting evolutionary ideas, at Page Springs Bed and Breakfast, just outside Sedona. For more information, visit www.TheInnstitute.com and www.TheAmericanEvolution.com.
Enjoy the inviting comfort of two lovely homes on eight acres in peaceful Page Springs. Our property, situated at the base of a natural amphitheatre and surrounded by Coconino National forest is only minutes from fabulous Sedona and Red Rock country to the north and Old Town Cottonwood and art-colony Jerome to the south. Page Springs B&B is the perfect home base for exploring the many wonders of Sedona, the Verde Valley and northern Arizona.
Themed rooms bring indigenous cultures of the world alive. Each suite expresses a unique cultural heritage with furnishings, artifacts and photography of indigenous people from the U.S., Mexico and the Kalahari in South Africa. Come and enjoy the natural beauty and multicultural experience of Page Springs B&B.
For more information call 928-634-4335 or visit: www.pagespringsbandb.com